Quotes About Lack

Hope and fear come from feeling that we lack something; they come from a sense of poverty. We can't simply relax with ourselves. We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment. We feel that someone else knows what's going on, but that there's something missing in us, and therefore something is lacking in our world.

the entire appeal of Anne Frank to the wider world—as opposed to those who knew and loved her—lay in her lack of a future.

the real problem is a lack of clarity and definition about what a project really is, and what associated next-action steps are required.

She had not character enough to take to drinking, and moaned about, slip-shod and in curl-papers, all day.

I am not gamesome: I do lack some part of that quick spirit that is in Antony.

and, to the very end, lack imagination and miss the better story.

You could build a world out of need or you could hold everything black and see. You give back the lack. You hold everything black. You give yourself back until nothing's left but the dissolving blues of metaphor.

Recognition of this lack might break you apart. Or recognition might illuminate the erasure the attempted erasure triggers. Whether such discerning creates a healthier, if more isolated, self, you can't know. In any case, Youngman doesn't speak to this kind of anger. He doesn't say that witnessing the expression of this more ordinary and daily anger might make the witness believe that a person is "insane." And

Nothing can contribute more to peace of soul than the lack of any opinion whatever.

Helen declared Western civilization's lack of understanding of other peoples' customs to be the world's greatest and gravest social problem.

My God, you're opinionated. You must terrify nearly every man you meet." "I don't meet many men." "That explains it, then." "Explains what?" "Why you've never been kissed before." Hannah stopped in her tracks and whirled to face him. "Why do you…how did you…" "The more experience a man has," he said, "the more easily he can detect the lack of it in someone else.

I love that there are so many 'Veronica Mars' fans. I was not a regular on the show. I was lucky enough to just come on. I loved the character. But, I never really realized the rabid fans that it had. I just didn't know.

flaccid weakness, and

nu înc?pea îndoial? c? prezentam toate simptomele, cel mai important fiind totala lips? de poft? pentru orice fel de activitate. N-am cuvinte s? v? spun cât suf?r în aceast? privin??. Am fost un martir din cea mai fraged? copil?rie.

She'd say solitude was a lack and nothing more. There's no point discussing it given that she's blind to the small pleasures my solitude affords me. In spite of how she's clung to me over the years my point of view doesn't interest her, and this gulf between

One would always like things to get other performances. With the lack of publishing here it's almost impossible to have an orchestral work done abroad because people simply don't know they are there.

Juvenile crime is not naturally born in the boy, but is largely due either to the spirit of adventure that is in him, to his own stupidity, or to his lack of discipline, according to the nature of the individual.

Everyone knows about the substantive issues of concern, like federal health care, but very little is said about the process, the lack of accountability.

I wondered why people consider escapism so bad, even the escapism on display right then. At first it might appear unseemly, but in the end its lack of pretension gives it its own sort of beauty.

We live in an age in which superfluous ideas abound and essential ideas are lacking.

In October 2008, when the credit crunch hit, small businesses were really crushed by the lack of capital.

It is honor that makes commerce possible, dear brother. And the law courts, when men lack it.

The trouble with all this, she said to him, is that it leaves so much out.

It was a costume fit for an age which had begun by proudly proclaiming its lack of regimentation and ended railing at its own disarray.